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Quick reference for AERMOD – Version 18081
SUMMARY OF CONTROL PATHWAY KEYWORDS AND PARAMETERS
Keyword

Parameters

TITLEONE

Title1

TITLETWO

Title2

MODELOPT

DFAULT ALPHA BETA CONC AREADPLT FLAT NOSTD NOCHKD NOWARN SCREEN SCIM PVMRM
DEPOS
and/or
or
or OLM
DDEP
ELEV
WARNCHKD
or ARM2
and/or
WDEP
FASTALL
or
FASTAREA

DRYDPLT
or
NODRYDPLT

Time2

. . .

WETDPLT
or
NOWETDPLT

TimeN

NOURBTRAN

AVERTIME

Time1

MONTH

URBANOPT

UrbanID Urbpop (Urbname) (UrbRoughness)
or
Urbpop (Urbname) (UrbRoughness)

VECTORWS

PSDCREDIT

PERIOD
or
ANNUAL
[For multiple urban areas]
[For single urban areas]

POLLUTID

Pollut

HALFLIFE

Haflif

DCAYCOEF

Decay

GASDEPDF

React

GASDEPVD

Uservd

GDLANUSE

Sec1

GDSEASON

Jan

LOW_WIND

SVmin (WSmin)
or
SVmin WSmin (FRANmax)

NO2EQUIL

NO2Equil

NO2STACK

NO2Ratio

ARMRATIO

ARM2_Min

O3SECTOR

StartSect1

OZONEFIL

O3FileName
(O3Units) (O3Format)
or
SECTn O3FileName
(O3Units) (O3Format)

[without O3SECTORs]

O3Value
(O3Units )
or
SECTn O3Value (O3Units)

[without O3SECTORs]

O3Flag O3values(i), i=1,n)
or
SECTn O3Flag O3values(i), i=1,n)

[without O3SECTORs]

OZONEVAL

O3VALUES

(H1H or H2H or INC)

F_Seas2

Sec2
Feb

F_Seas5

...
...

(Refpoll)

Sec36
Dec

ARM2_Max

[for ARM2 Option]

StartSect2 . . . StartSectN, where N is ≤ 6

OZONUNIT

(OzoneUnits)

FLAGPOLE

(Flagdf)

[with O3SECTORs]

[with O3SECTOR]

[with O3SECTORs]

1

Keyword

Parameters

RUNORNOT

RUN

EVENTFIL

(Evfile)

(Evopt)

SAVEFILE

(Savfil)

(Dayinc)

INITFILE

(Inifil)

MULTYEAR

(H6H)

DEBUGOPT

or

NOT

Savfil

(Savfl2)

(Inifil)

MODEL (Dbgfil) and/or METEOR (Dbmfil) and/or PRIME (Prmfil) and/or DEPOS and/or
[AREA

(AreaDbFil) or LINE (LineDbFil)] and/or

[PVMRM (Dbpvfil) or OLM (OLMfil) or ARM2 (ARM2fil)]
ERRORFIL

(Errfil)

2

SUMMARY OF SOURCE PATHWAY KEYWORDS AND PARAMETERS
Keyword

Parameters

ELEVUNIT

METERS

LOCATION

SrcID Srctyp

or

FEET
Xs

(Zs)
or
(FLAT)
Xs1 Ys1 Xs2 Ys2

SrcID Srctyp
Ptemis
Vlemis
Aremis
Aremis
Aremis
Opemis
BLemis

Ys

Stkhgt
Relhgt
Relhgt
Relhgt
Relhgt
Relhgt
Relhgt

[All except LINE or BUOYLINE source]

SRCPARAM

SrcID

BLPINPUT

blavgblen

BUILDHGT

SrcID (or SrcRange)

Dsbh(i), i=1,36

BUILDLEN

SrcID (or SrcRange)

Dsbl(i), i=1,36

BUILDWID

SrcID (or SrcRange)

Dsbw(i), i=1,36

XBADJ

SrcID (or SrcRange) Xbadj(i), i=1,36

YBADJ

SrcID (or SrcRange) Ybadj(i), i=1,36

AREAVERT

SrcID Xv(1)

URBANSRC

UrbanID
or
SrcID’s

blavgbhgt

Yv(1)

Stktmp Stkvel
Syinit Szinit
Xinit (Yinit)
Nverts (Szinit)
Radius (Nverts)
Xinit
Yinit

blavgbwid

Xv(2)

SrcID’s

and/or

and/or

SrcRng’s

Yv(2)

Stkdia

[POINT,POINTCAP, POINTHOR
[VOLUME
(Angle) (Szinit)
[AREA
[AREAPOLY
(Szinit)
[AREACIRC
Pitvol (Angle)
[OPENPIT
[BUOYLINE

blavglwid

...

Qflag

source]
source]
source]
source]
source]
source]
source]

blavgfprm

Yv(i)
[For multiple urban areas]
[For single urban areas]

SrcID (or SrcRange)

EMISUNIT

Emifac

Emilbl

Outlbl

CONCUNIT

Emifac

Emilbl

Conlbl

DEPOUNIT

Emifac

Emilbl

Deplbl

PARTDIAM

SrcID (or SrcRange)

Pdiam(i), i=1,Npd

MASSFRAX

SrcID (or SrcRange)

Phi(i), i=1,Npd

PARTDENS

SrcID (or SrcRange)

Pdens(i), i=1,Npd

METHOD_2

SrcID (or SrcRange)

FineMassFraction

GASDEPOS

SrcID (or SrcRange)

Da

NO2RATIO

SrcID (or SrcRange)

NO2Ratio

HOUREMIS

Emifil

BGSECTOR

StartSect1

BACKGRND

BGflag
BGvalue(i), i=1,n
and/or
HOURLY
BGfilnam
(BGformat)
or
SECTn
BGflag
BGvalue(i), i=1,n
and/or
SECTn
HOURLY
BGfilnam
(BGformat)

Dw

blavgbsep

Xv(i)

SrcRng’s

EMISFACT

SrcID's

[for ‘FLAT & ELEV’ option]
[LINE or BUOYLINE source]

(Zs)

Qfact(i), i=1,n

rcl

Dmm

Henry

SrcRange's

StartSect2 . . . StartSectN, where N is ≤ 6

BACKUNIT

BGunits

INCLUDED

Incfil

OLMGROUP

OLMGrpID

SrcID's

SrcRange's

PSDGROUP

PSDGrpID

SrcID's

SrcRange's

3

[without BGSECTORs]

[with BGSECTORs]

Keyword

Parameters

SRCGROUP

SrcGrpID

SrcID's

SrcRange's

SUMMARY OF RECEPTOR PATHWAY KEYWORDS AND PARAMETERS
Keyword

Parameters

ELEVUNIT

METERS

or

GRIDCART

Netid

STA
XYINC
XPNTS
YPNTS
ELEV
HILL
FLAG
END

Xinit
Gridx1
Gridy1
Row
Row
Row

STA
ORIG
ORIG
DIST
DDIR
GDIR
ELEV
HILL
FLAG
END

Xinit
Yinit,
Srcid
Ring1
Ring2
Ring3
...
Dir1
Dir2
Dir3
...
Dirnum Dirini Dirinc
Dir Zelev1 Zelev2 Zelev3
Dir Zhill1 Zhill2 Zhill3
Dir Zflag1 Zflag2 Zflag3

or

GRIDPOLR

Netid
or

or

DISCCART

Xcoord

DISCPOLR

Srcid

EVALCART

Xcoord

INCLUDED

RecIncFile

FEET

Ycoord
Dist

(Zelev

Direct

Ycoord

Xnum
Gridx2
Gridy2
Zelev1
Zhill1
Zflag1

Zhill)

(Zelev

Zelev

Xdelta
Gridx3
Gridy3
Zelev2
Zhill2
Zflag2

Zhill

Yinit Ynum Ydelta,
....
GridxN, and
....
GridyN
Zelev3 ... ZelevN
Zhill3 ... ZhillN
Zflag3 ... ZflagN

RingN
DirN,
...
...
...

ZelevN
ZhillN
ZflagN

(Zflag)

Zhill)
Zflag

4

(Zflag)
Arcid

(Name)

SUMMARY OF METEOROLOGY PATHWAY KEYWORDS AND PARAMETERS
Keyword

Parameters

SURFFILE

Sfcfil

PROFFILE

Profil

SURFDATA

Stanum

Year

(Name)

(Xcoord

Ycoord)

UAIRDATA

Stanum

Year

(Name)

(Xcoord

Ycoord)

SITEDATA

Stanum

Year

(Name)

(Xcoord

Ycoord)

PROFBASE

BaseElev

STARTEND

Strtyr Strtmn Strtdy (Strthr) Endyr Endmn Enddy (Endhr)

DAYRANGE

Range1

SCIMBYHR

NRegStart

WDROTATE

Rotang

WINDCATS

Ws1

(Units)

Range2

Ws2

Range3

NRegInt

Ws3

Ws4

...

RangeN

(SfcFilnam

PflFilnam)

Ws5

SUMMARY OF EVENT PATHWAY KEYWORDS AND PARAMETERS
Keyword

Parameters

EVENTPER

Evname

Aveper

EVENTLOC

Evname

XR=
or
RNG=

INCLUDED

Note:

Grpid

Date

Xr

YR=

Yr

(Zelev

Zhill) (Zflag)

Rng

DIR=

Dir

(Zelev

Zhill) (Zflag)

EventIncFile

EVENT locations can be input as either discrete Cartesian receptors (XR=, YR=) or
as discrete polar receptors (RNG=, DIR=). Events that are specified in the file
generated by the AERMOD model (CO EVENTFIL card) are always given as discrete
Cartesian coordinates. Discrete polar receptors are assumed to be relative to an
origin of (0,0).

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SUMMARY OF OUTPUT PATHWAY KEYWORDS AND PARAMETERS
Keyword

Parameters

RECTABLE

Aveper
Aveper
Aveper

FIRST
1ST
1

MAXTABLE

Aveper

Maxnum

DAYTABLE

Avper1

Avper2

MAXIFILE

Aveper

GrpID

Thresh

Filnam

(Funit)

POSTFILE

Aveper

GrpID

Format

Filnam

(Funit)

PLOTFILE

Aveper
Aveper

GrpID
GrpID

Hivalu
Filnam

Filnam (Funit)
(Funit)

TOXXFILE

Aveper

Cutoff

RANKFILE

Aveper

Hinum

Filnam

EVALFILE

SrcID

Filnam

(Funit)

SEASONHR

GrpID

FileName

(FileUnit)

MAXDAILY

GrpID

FileName

(FileUnit)

MXDYBYYR

GrpID

FileName

(FileUnit)

MAXDCONT

GrpID
or
GrpID

UpperRank

LowerRank

UpperRank

THRESH

SECOND
2ND
2

Avper3

Filnam

SUMMFILE

SummFileName

FILEFORM

EXP

NOHEADER

FileType1
or
ALL

FileType2

EVENTOUT

SOCONT

DETAIL

or

. . .
. . .
. . .

SIXTH
6TH
6

. . .
. . .
. . .

TENTH
10TH
10

and/or
and/or
. . .
N
. . .

. . .

[Short Term values]
[PERIOD or ANNUAL averages]

(Funit)
(Funit)

FileName

ThreshValue

(FileUnit)
FileName

(FileUnit)

FIX

or

999

FileType3

.

.

.

FileTypeN

[EVENT Only]

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